Serial killer wrote twisted poems at HMP Full Sutton

WRITINGS REVEAL ARROGANCE AND PARANOIA

SERIAL killer Dennis Nilsen wrote sick and twisted poems while serving time at HMP Full Sutton.

Nilsen died in “excruciating pain” at the East Yorkshire prison in May 2018.

He had been complaining of stomach pains and was taken to York Hospital, where he was diagnosed with a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, which surgeons managed to repair.

However, the operation caused a blood clot and Nilsen’s inquest heard he died slowly over twoand-a-half hours alone in his cell.

Evil Nilsen had served 34 years after being jailed in November 1983 for killing at least 12 young men and boys in North London.

He lured the men and boys back to his home before he seduced them, killed them and stored them for several months before disposing of the bodies, the Mirror reports.

Nilsen was finally caught when he complained about a disgusting smell coming from the drains of his flat, where he stuffed some of the body parts of his victims.

Now, never-before-seen poems, written by the killer in the weeks leading up to his agonising death have emerged for the first time.

One, about condoms, reveals his sick sexual fantasies while others rage against authority, inequality and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

The strangest part of the letters was a poem he penned about contraception.

Nilsen wrote: “The amorous lumber of thin, necessary, latex; Stripped from the packet, concealed in one’s jacket; As substantial as a whiff of pink vapour; Settling on the shimmering rum of doubt; The line between fact and fiction; Before the truth will out.”

Brian Masters, who wrote a book about Nilsen, received letters from him during his time in prison and they would often contain poems.

He also had another pen pal, who has asked to remain anonymous, but has released the poems for the first time.

The man said: “Nilsen wrote his poems like lectures. He liked to throw in long words, however, they didn’t always make sense. He came across as arrogant.”

Nilsen’s letters also show his twisted view on the world. In one letter, he wrote: “I suppose that, like many other people in society, you believe that the ruling authority is intelligent, wise and cognitively well intentioned.

“Despite the fact that our ‘moral betters’ have gotten us into two aggressively invasive wars, presided over a fracturing of society (with its inordinate gap between rich and poor), and ruined the financial/economic system of global proportions?”

In 2009, he wrote several letters that show his twisted world view, including bizarre conspiracy theories. Nilsen seems to think of himself as an intelligent deep thinker rebelling against “the system” and that the world is conspiring against him.

In the letters, he says: “Apart from the banks and the economy there is, apparently, still room for additional rottenness in what is called ‘the system.’

“Little things engage the full attention of little mind with all the really big and massive problems escaping their attention.”